Guardian.UK: Discovery of ancient cave paintings in Petra stuns art scholars.
“Experts from the Courtauld Institute in London have now removed the black grime, uncovering paintings whose ‘exceptional’ artistic quality and sheer beauty are said to be superior even to some of the better Roman paintings at Herculaneum that were inspired by Hellenistic art. Virtually no Hellenistic paintings survive today, and fragments only hint at antiquity’s lost masterpieces, while revealing little about their colours and composition, so the revelation of these wall paintings in Jordan is all the more significant.” These are a stunning find. A further indication of what we foolishly let slip away in the Dark Ages.
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